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Overall Scenario turns from Bad to Worse
EDITORIALAs the Karnataka drama continues and there are as yet no visible signs of it coming to an immediate end since the State Assembly Speaker has not indicated that even after 10 MLAs of the ruling...
View ArticleSave the Earth Now Campaign and its SED 20-30 Demand
All aims of this campaign are sought to be realised within a framework of justice, peace and democracy at three levels.•Wider Aim To protect and save the life-nurturing, life-sustaining conditions of...
View ArticleCBI Onslaught on Eminent Lawyers
Acting on a complaint from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the CBI conducted searches on July 11, 2019, at the residence of senior eminent lawyers, Indira Jaising and her husband Anand Grover, and in the...
View ArticleMore Needs to be Done to Revitalise the Chabahar Project
by Gautam SenThe Government of India's latest regular Budget of 2019-20, has a meagre allocation of Rs 45 crores for the development and opera-tionalising of the Chabahar Port infrastructure under the...
View ArticleWhither Unreasoned Traditions?
by Arup MaharatnaAs things stand by now, it would not be an exaggeration to say with hindsight that the entire post-independent India has been reeling increasingly under a stubborn, unquestioned, and...
View ArticleA Naxalite of a Distinctive Strain
TRIBUTEby Sankar Ray“If you set your foot in Gopiballabhpur, you won't feel you are in Bengal. The Chhotanagpur plateau meets the catchment of Subarnarekha river here. The soil texture around is red...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Political Parties
After the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections were announced, political parties as well as several political commentators are trying to understand the social and political reasons leading to the...
View ArticleWhat Ails our IITs?
by Ashok CellyThere must be something terribly wrong with our IITs. For after four or five years of seemingly intense engagement with a certain branch of engineering a fairly large number of IIT...
View ArticleEpaar Bangla, Opaar Bangla
by Partha S Ghosh“What Bengal thinks today, India will think tomorrow.” This is how the first generation Indian nationalist, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, had certified the political wisdom of Bengalis a...
View ArticleThe Rise and Rise of Bangladesh
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent visit to China highlights a new template in regional politics—the rise of Bangladesh as a regional power.Last year, Bangladesh outstripped India as the...
View ArticleThe Evening
Why all these striving, hankering,when you can seethe clear sign of future shapeof things unfoldingin their allotted placesdestined by your waning days?The journey is now downhillfrom all that was...
View ArticleA Life devoted to the CPI
TRIBUTEby Sadasiva ChamarthyComrade Shameem passed away after battling cancer for months. After initial diagnosis, he maintained his composure, started undergoing usual routine checkups, then under-...
View ArticleAruna Asaf Ali's 110th birth anniversary - Some tributes from the past
From N.C.'s WritingsJuly 16 this year marked Aruna Asaf Ali's 110th birth anniversary. She passed away in the Capital on July 29, 1996. N.C. wrote this tribute after her passing 23 years ago.Aruna Asaf...
View ArticleBudget: A Catalyst for Social and Economic Transformation
by Suranjita RayThe Budget has always been interpreted as an instrument of social and economic reforms alongside an innovator of far-reaching reforms in fiscal policies. It has a vital role to play in...
View ArticleCritique of Union Budget 2019-20
by Jayati GhoshWhen Finance Minister Nirmala Sitha-raman's Budget speech omitted numbers relating to the government's overall revenue and expenditure, for both the previous and current years, this was...
View ArticleKarnataka Different from South?
IMPRESSIONSHere is an oddity that has not received the attention it deserves: in the voting last May, the south broke from the rest of India—and Karnataka broke from the rest of the south. What made...
View ArticleMatching PM's Words with Deeds, Shah Alam Khan's latest Book
MUSINGSShouldn't the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, have the Pehlu Khan lynching case re-opened and with that re-examined? Yes, he should. So that the murdered man and his family get justice...
View ArticleTabrez Ansari, ‘Jai Shri Ram' and Hate Killings
by Ram PuniyaniIn the 17th Meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council the issue of the rise in hate crimes and mob lynchings against Muslims and Dalits in India was raised. While Prime Minster...
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Nitish on the Horns of a Dilemma
POLITICAL NOTEBOOKBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is unhappy with the BJP. After the Lok Sabha elections, Modi took only one Minister in his Cabinet from the JD(U) even though the JD(U) had won only...
View ArticleStatus of Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers under the...
by Suparna Sanyal MukherjeeThe rabble of India was habituating in and around the Indian woodlands since time immemorial, but they had no legal rights to their homes, lands or livelihood sustenance.The...
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